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Florida elimiates Tech in College World Series (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
Florida s Mary Ratliff struck out her first three times yesterday against Angela Tincher. But Ratliff finally broke through at the most important time, lining a double up the middle in the top of the ninth inning to drive in the winning runs in Florida s 2-0 win over Virginia Tech in the Women s College World Series.

Virginia Tech can’t capitalize on error, loses to Florida in CWS (WDBJ 7 Roanoke)
A seventh-inning error by Florida gave Virginia Tech an opportunity to eliminate the top-seeded Gators in regulation, but the Hokies couldn’t capitalize. It would come back to haunt them in the end, as Florida used three singles in the ninth inning to eliminate Virginia Tech with a 2 to 0 victory.

Gators eliminate Virginia Tech in extra innings (KATC 3 Lafayette)
OKLAHOMA CITY — Mary Ratliff hit a two-run double in the ninth inning as top-seeded Florida finally broke through against player of the year Angela Tincher to beat Virginia Tech 2-0…

Tech Camps (The Russellville Courier)
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Gators eliminate Virginia Tech in extra innings (News On 6 Tulsa)
Associated Press - May 31, 2008 4:45 PM ET OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Mary Ratliff hit a two-run double in the ninth inning as top-seeded Florida finally beat Virginia Tech 2-0 today at the Women’s…

Gators eliminate Virginia Tech in extra innings (The Oklahoman)
OKLAHOMA CITY _ Mary Ratliff hit a two-run double in the ninth inning as top-seeded Florida finally broke through against player of the year Angela Tincher to beat Virginia Tech 2-0 Saturday at the Women’s College World Series. Tincher struck out 19, one short of the World Series record, and had fanned Ratliff in her three previous at-bats before she grounded a two-out double past shortstop …

Two heading to Indiana Tech (Ionia Sentinel-Standard)
PORTLAND - Last season, the Indiana Tech men’s basketball team finished runner-up in the Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference behind Aquinas by one game.

Report shows heroin caused Georgia Tech player’s death (USA Today)
A medical examiner’s report shows a heroin overdose caused the death of Georgia Tech pitcher Michael Hutts. The Fulton County Medical Examiner’s office released the report Friday. The report offers the final word on what killed the 21-year-old baseball player, who was found dead in his Atlanta apartment on April 11.

Small caps find green pastures on tech frenzy (SmallCapInvestor.com via Yahoo! Finance)
Small caps edged higher Friday, underpinned on buying in the tech sector, benign economic data and by traders eager to put money back into stocks after a solid showing this week.

Report Shows Heroin Caused Georgia Tech Player’s Death (Washington Post)
ATLANTA (AP) — A medical examiner’s report shows a heroin overdose caused the death of Georgia Tech pitcher Michael Hutts.

Personal Tech (Washington Post)
The Washington Post’s Rob Pegoraro discusses his recent reviews and answers your personal tech questions.

Duke Energy wants to plug in high-tech meters (The Indianapolis Star)
Duke Energy Indiana wants to install a $400 million high-tech metering system for its 800,000 Hoosier electric customers to make sure they don’t receive more power than they need.

Tech Industry Fueling Palestinian Economic Hopes (Wired News)
The talent and desire are there, but the region’s torment has retarded economic growth, especially in the tech sector. But the Palestinians are reaching out to foreign partners to jump-start things, and finding them — even Israelis.

Palestinians foster fledgling high-tech industry (USA Today)
A fledgling Palestinian high-tech industry could one day drive the territories’ sluggish economy fueled by an abundance of college graduates and not as limited by constraints of the Mideast conflict.

Tech wrestles with fuel prices (Paragould Daily Press)
Diesel prices are skyrocketing and Greene County Tech School District officials are searching for ways to cut costs.

US Files Trade Complaint Against EU Tech Product Taxes (PC World via Yahoo! News)
The U.S. government files a tech-related trade complaint against the EU.

U.S. files complaint over European tech tariffs (USA Today)
The United States filed a complaint Wednesday with the World Trade Organization over European tariffs on three categories of high-tech goods, including flat-panel computer monitors and some printers.

Tech Opens NCAA Athens Regional as No. 2 Seed (CSTV’s College Sports)
ATLANTA - Georgia Tech (39-19) makes its 24th appearance in the NCAA Baseball Tournament this weekend as the No. 2 seed in the NCAA Athens Regional in Athens, Ga. The Yellow Jackets will open regional play at Georgia’s Foley Field against the No. 3 seed and Big East Champion Louisville (41-19) Friday at 7 p.m.

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Prof. to head new peace center at Virginia Tech (San Francisco Chronicle)
A Virginia Tech professor who lost his wife in a mass shooting last year will head a new peace center in the classroom wing where she died, the university announced Tuesday. Jerzy Nowak will step down as head of the Blacksburg school’s horticulture department…

‘Fast Money’ Recap: Tech Leaps Over Oil (TheStreet.com)
The trading panel notes that as oil pulled back, tech stocks entered the breach.

Russell 2000: Up on crude oil dip, rally in tech stocks (SmallCapInvestor.com via Yahoo! Finance)
Small-cap stocks edged higher Tuesday, supported by a pullback in crude oil prices, a firm tone in the U.S. dollar, a jump in tech stocks and modest buying from those who saw last week s…

Five Top Tech Stocks (Forbes)
You might not get the kind of returns investors yielded during the tech boom, but these five stocks should serve you well.

New York Tech takes NCAA Division II title (Sports Illustrated)
Keith Henderson scored five goals and New York Tech held defending champion LeMoyne scoreless for two long stretches in a 16-11 victory in the NCAA Division II men’s lacrosse championship on Sunday.

Professor to head new peace center at Va. Tech (USA Today)
A Virginia Tech professor whose wife was one of the 32 people killed by a student gunman will head a peace center based in the building where most of the victims died.

Professor to head new peace center at Virginia Tech (AP via Yahoo! News)
Virginia Tech professor Jerzy Nowak, whose wife was one of 32 people killed by a student gunman on campus last year, will head a peace center to be established in the building where most of the victims died.

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Strangeloop WS1000 Web Services Accelerator Named Best of Tech?Ed 2008 Award Finalist (CanadaIT.com)
Vancouver, BC, May 22, 2008–(T-Net)–Strangeloop Networks, a leading provider of solutions that accelerate dynamic web applications developed with Microsoft’s ASP.NET framework or which rely on web services, today announced that its Strangeloop WS1000 Web Services Accelerator was named as a finalist of the "Best of Tech"Ed 2008 IT Professional Awards’ in the Hardware, Networking and Storage …

H.S. ROUNDUP: GNB Voc-Tech’s upset bid falls short in vocational state semifinals (The Standard-Times)
GNB Voc-Tech was six outs from upsetting top-seeded Worcester Tech in the semifinals of the Large School Vocational State tournament, but the Bears couldn’t close it out and fell 4-3 on Memorial Day.

Vietnamese PM Approves Adjustments To Hoa Lac Hi-Tech Zone Plan (Asia Pulse via Yahoo!7 News)
The Prime Minister of Vietnam has approved the adjusted plan on construction of the Hoa Lac Hi-tech Zone, giving the green light to begin construction of the national hi-tech development and application centre.

VIETNAMESE PM APPROVES ADJUSTMENTS TO HOA LAC HI-TECH ZONE PLAN (Asia Pulse via Yahoo!7 Finance)
Housing The Prime Minister of Vietnam has approved the adjusted plan on construction of the Hoa Lac Hi-tech Zone, giving the green light to begin construction of the national hi-tech development and application centre.

InfoWorld tech celebrity quiz (InfoWorld via Yahoo! News)
So you’ve already passed our Geek IQ Test and think you have the latest dirt on today’s tech celebrity set? Well, it will also take some old-school lowdown on the folks who first brought fame and infamy to the tech industry to ace our quiz. Correct responses are worth 5 points. Ready? Then put your tech-gossip insight and industry-insider lore to the test.

Tech sent to NCAA regional at Georgia (Savannah Morning News)
ATHENS - Georgia Tech is headed to Athens to join Georgia in its NCAA regional - just as coach Danny Hall expected.

Tech back on top of S&P 500 (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
NEW YORK — For the first time since the bubble burst this decade, information technology stocks have overtaken financials as the largest sector by market value in the Standard & Poor’s 500 index. That alignment might not last long — soaring oil prices have helped lift the energy sector to a close third. For the past 10 years, tech and financials have gone back and forth as the leading sector …

U-Tech Media lands OEM order for Rambo BD movie discs, says paper (Digi Times)
U-Tech Media, the largest Taiwan-based producer of pre-recorded optical discs, has obtained an OEM order for Blu-ray Disc (BD) movie discs for the movie John Rambo (First Blood IV) from VIA OnDemand, the operator of the online entertainment service platform CatchPlay in Taiwan, according to the Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN) newspaper.

New York Tech takes NCAA Division II title (Sports Illustrated)
Keith Henderson scored five goals and New York Tech held defending champion LeMoyne scoreless for two long stretches in a 16-11 victory in the NCAA Division II men’s lacrosse championship on Sunday.

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